The Best College Degree to Get 2026

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:01]All right, kiddos. Good morning. This is author Jonathan David in your ear. Hear that smooth, rich sound from a a radio host from the 1980s.

[00:00:14]Today we are going to talk about what is the best degree to pursue in college 2026.

[00:00:23]Uh well, let's ask let's ask ourselves some questions before we continue.

[00:00:30]Why do you want to go to college? What do you think you're going to gain from college? Let's let's address this.

[00:00:35]Should you even go to college?

[00:00:38]Do you know that 50% of people that attempt a college degree do not complete a college degree? Do you know that your odds are better at winning at blackjack than they are at having a useful college degree?

[00:00:51]If you go to college, the funny thing is you're either going to succeed or you're going to waste your time. There's no in between. Half measures avail.

[00:01:05]So from my personal research and um observations the there's a order of people who fail at college.

[00:01:16]The first people who fail at college are the ones who skip lecture. The second people who fail at college are the ones who use things like artificial intelligence, Khan Academy, teacher solution manuals, private tutors. They fail at college. Doesn't mean they don't graduate necessarily, but it means that they fail because they get a degree they can't use. They're useless.

[00:01:39]Uh your ability to have artificial intelligence do something for you and then you claim you're able to do it. It's a it's some sort of delusional state. people are going through right now. It's like a a severe like mass delusion amid college students. All of you that use artificial intelligence, teacher solution manuals, private tutors, conmies, what you're doing is you're going to a restaurant and you're ordering food and somebody's bringing it to you and you've eaten the food and you're like, "Now I'm a chef. I ate a hamburger. I'm a chef. I know what it tastes like. I'm a chef."

[00:02:16]You're like a musician that listens to the radio and thinks they're getting better at playing music by listening to other people play music.

[00:02:26]It ain't worked that way. Now, so the first people that fail are the ones that skip lecture. If you skip lecture, it's over with. Okay? If you can't go to lecture, what what kind of a company wants to hire somebody that won't show up to work? Okay, then. Uh so it goes the first people that fail are the ones that skip lecture. The second people that fail are the ones that use all those technologies and cheating platforms like Khan Academy, Wise Ant Tutoring, one of the biggest scams on the planet.

[00:02:54]I took part in all of this. I'm not guilty. I'm not innocent. I took part in all that stuff. I don't do it anymore because I realize how bad it is for people's education. To be a private tutor destroys your education. Again, it's like you're going to a restaurant and you're ordering food and you're eating it and you think you're getting an education on cooking.

[00:03:11]Um, so that's what that's the first thing that happens. Okay. Then the third the third person that fails at college is the one who realizes it's not for them. They make the right decision. They realize, I don't want to do this. I don't care about making $200,000 a year. I'm fine with a $50,000 a year, $40,000 a year small town life.

[00:03:35]Fine with that. More most people are okay with that. Most people do not need to go make this huge gigantic paycheck and put all of this stress on them just to have this money they'll never spend.

[00:03:46]That's the circle of uh like con artistry in the in the business world.

[00:03:50]It's like, yeah, I'm making 200 grand a year, but I got to work 80 hours a week and in order to keep that money, I got to I got to live in like a super expensive place away from other people.

[00:04:01]So, I'm separate for like, you know, keeping up appearance. So, I basically live the same way somebody who works at a factory does. I just have a nicer couch and a lot more stress.

[00:04:13]You guys that are young before you're going to college, you're like, "Oh, it'd be so great to make 120 grand a year."

[00:04:18]You think it would be, but you don't know what comes with that. You get paid that money, not because you can use AI.

[00:04:26]They could hire a toddler to use AI.

[00:04:29]That's another thing you guys got to figure. You guys got to really have a one-on-one with yourself. Uh, I showed you guys the job applications. They're saying if you guys use AI, don't apply here. NASA has it right on their thing.

[00:04:38]If you're using AI to write your cover letter, if you're using AI to edit your cover letter, if you used AI to help you learn, you're not welcome here. Do not apply here. NASA said that right on the front of their applications verbatim.

[00:04:51]And you guys are all like, "It's the greatest thing ever. I'm going to become a high paid employee because I can type things into a computer and get incorrect answers and pass it off as incorrect answers. I I'm so I'm so successful."

[00:05:06]So, let's just get that elephant in the room out of the way. You will fail if you are using those things. It's over for you. Doesn't matter if you're in a STEM degree or a non- STEM degree. You will you will become a very useless person.

[00:05:20]There's always one person that slips through, but you know, things always catch up to to that person.

[00:05:30]Now, the next people that fail at college are the people that chose the wrong majors.

[00:05:37]The people that chose the wrong majors.

[00:05:39]The smart ones change their degrees in freshman year.

[00:05:44]The dumb ones hire private tutors, use Khanmies, use AIs, and cheat until junior year. and then they completely have to leave college because they wasted all of the years needed studying from books.

[00:06:00]Now they don't know how to use the books junior senior year. You guys think that books are outdated. They're not outdated. They're they're a form of delivering information.

[00:06:10]The physical books are outdated. You need a PDF now. You need to type. You don't handwriting and physical books.

[00:06:16]That's what's outdated. The process of absorbing information as a human has not changed. The most efficient way to do that is by reading print currently, not by watching somebody read it to you.

[00:06:27]When you guys watch videos on YouTube, it's pathetic. It's like you're having your mom read you a bedtime story. And it takes 10 times longer to read something to you than it does for you to read it yourself. And you if you miss the freshman sophomore years of learning how to read textbooks, doesn't matter what degree you're in. If you miss freshman sophomore year, the experience learning how to read textbooks, this is a collection. These textbooks are practice zones for scientific data that are articulated and proven. You can't leave the book. I mean, you guys just amazing how how much you guys try to justify cheating. It's just amazing.

[00:07:02]It's you can't leave the book period.

[00:07:06]The numbers in the book are not universal. This the theorems, the definitions are not universal. You can't do calculations in this physics book using numbers from this physics book.

[00:07:15]They're not universal. The numbers change year to year. they get more precise or they alter. You can't you can't leave the book. I don't know what why you guys keep trying to argue that.

[00:07:26]If you leave the book, you're no longer studying the subject that you are paying to study. You go to this class that you've paid a lot of money to this university, this team of people that are extraordinarily professional and highly successful to guide you down the road to success. And your brilliant strategy is to do absolutely nothing they tell you to do.

[00:07:47]But the textbook is so important, guys.

[00:07:49]That so that leads me to the next people that fail. The people who don't use the textbooks, you guys fail. Even if you graduate, you can't do anything. You go get a job, they give you a bunch of literature, they give you a computer, they ask you to show up at a certain time, and you're like, "Huh? I got to show up. It didn't say I had to be at lecture. Why do I have to come to work?"

[00:08:08]Huh? You want me to read scientific data and type professionally? Huh? You want good written and oral communication skills? Huh? I thought college was about partying and cheating and then you get a highpaying job and you have a great life. Huh? I mean, this is how you guys think. You've been influenced by social media and cinema. To think that college is a fantasy fiction story. College is not a place to make friends, kids. You got a four-year window to become a superior human, to cross a line of in society that divides you from everybody else.

[00:08:44]It's not necessarily a line you want to cross. It will separate you from a lot of people that you may be friends with right now. Five years from now, you're not going to be friends with them. You won't be able to communicate with them anymore.

[00:08:57]When you become scholarly educated, you learn how to communicate accordingly.

[00:09:04]Meaning the words that you're speaking, you know the definitions of them. You know how it, you know how embarrassing it is for a person that supposedly has a graduate level education to say irregardless or say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over. You know how embarrassing that is for them?

[00:09:21]I I I I test people everywhere I go. I meet people that think they they they fancy themselves scholarly and educated.

[00:09:29]I always test them because everybody I meet cannot admit they're wrong about anything for some reason. It's some sort of sickness. It's a survival instinct that's just won't leave our society.

[00:09:40]This inability to be wrong about anything. I I'm I have that really bad.

[00:09:45]That's why I study math and physics because I can prove everything. I'm not wrong about anything because I You know how I'm right about everything? I It says it right here on the shirt. I know I'm right. But you know why I know I'm right? Because I am willing to say I don't know the answer to that. That makes me right. When you guys ask me a question, I say I don't know the answer to that. I'm right. So I'm a know-it-all because I'm willing to admit that I don't know it all. That which makes me right, which means I know it all.

[00:10:08]It's a It's a the I'm the ultimate narcissist.

[00:10:13]All right. So, what we talking about, Herva?

[00:10:17]Listen carefully, little boys and girls.

[00:10:22]Do you really want to go to college is the first thing I would ask you. Do you really want to go to college? Do you need to have this degree just so that you can, you know, feel like you're on the same level of education as friends and family? Because if you feel that way, it probably has nothing to do with you. It has to do with them being extremely insecure. I have a friend like that. He's He even told me straight out.

[00:10:43]He's like, "When I'm at dinner, I just love dropping the mast's bomb." "Oh, when I got my master's degree," and I'm like, "Dude, you you sat at a computer and wrote a bunch of papers for two years for an online school and they gave you a piece of paper. Congratulations.

[00:10:57]That to me, that's not impressive.

[00:10:58]Having a PhD is not impressive. You sat in a room for 10 years studying everything there is to know about a subject so that you could find something new to add to the subject. That's not a difficult thing to do. Do you guys think that people who make these discoveries in math and physics are some sort of magicians? The majority of them they just toiled and toiled and toiled until they found a shipwreck in the ocean and there it's filled with gold. It's like I call it there's two types of scientists.

[00:11:24]Gold diggers and alchemists. Einstein was like a gold digger, like a treasure hunter. He just kept going and going until he found something. He even said that. He said it verbatim a different way. He said that for every thousand things I thought of, one thing was correct. I learned that about myself, too. I have that same exact problem.

[00:11:40]That's why I switched to writing fiction because I really don't care about making a discovery anymore. I made one. I set out to make a discovery. I did. It's good enough for me. Now, all the ideas I have, rather than trying to turn them into theoretical physics concepts, I turn them into fiction books. Works much better. It's more fun. Makes money.

[00:11:57]Entertains people. It's easier on my um stress levels. So, I ask you, why would you want to go to college for any degree? It's a lot of work. You need to we need to have a one-on-one with your you need to have a one-on-one with yourself right now. The purpose of college is to become scholarly educated.

[00:12:16]Okay? College education meaning that you know how to communicate appropriately, accordingly. Meaning you know the words, the definitions of the words you're saying. meaning you have communication skills. You're not afraid to get in front of an audience and talk clearly as I am now.

[00:12:35]When you leave college, you're supposed to be college yet educated. Meaning, you might be talking slow homie G slang homie G type, you know, what's up? Sup, dog? Uh, bro, I can't believe he said that. like ah that kind of crap will be removed from your demeanor which will separate you from a lot of people that you are supposedly acquainted with currently.

[00:13:04]That's something to address. If you live in a lowincome, low educated environment, being highly educated, you're not going to be welcome there. And when you come from that environment and you move into a more wealthy community because of your background, you're not going to be welcomed there. It's a tough transition.

[00:13:25]Most douchebags, you know, are brought up under the reign of other douchebags.

[00:13:32]I've watched this my whole life. You know, people that are born into money are trained to to believe they're superior. It helps with the con to continue having more money than other people when they are inferior people, but they have money and money can buy intelligence. Sometimes you can buy a business degree and if you have wealthy parents, you can buy success. That don't work for math, physics, or engineering.

[00:13:57]You if you if you use private tutors through an engineering degree, it's over with. Same with math and physics. It's over with. There's always one person that slips through, but it ain't going to be you.

[00:14:09]So, you know, just first of all, just to address this, what's the best degree to get in college 2026? The first thing I want to address is should you even go to college? Because you have a better chance of winning at blackjack than you do of having a successful college education. It's a waste of time. It's a waste of money.

[00:14:30]There are different types of education, different reasons. You might be like 50 or 60 years old and you want to go back and do a master's degree.

[00:14:38]so that you can apply for a more prestigious position at your company and you've got the time to do it. Your kids are grown up. That's a that's a different story that'll help you.

[00:14:48]But you're like a 18-year-old kid trying to decide, should I do an engineering degree or a business degree or go to medicine or law?

[00:14:55]You might want to and your thoughts might first be what pays the most. They all pay the same.

[00:15:02]That's the next thing I want to address.

[00:15:04]First, we want to address have a one-on-one with yourself. Do you even want to go to college? Maybe you should take a couple years off. Go work in retail. Nothing will motivate you more to do college correctly than doing a couple years in retail.

[00:15:18]Go work at a restaurant. Experience what it's like to prevent yourself from wanting to spit in half of the people's food every day. You people that go to restaurants that are rude, you have no idea what they're doing to your food behind the scenes. I don't know what why you would ever be rude to somebody that handles your food. I've worked in restaurants. You don't want to know. Go watch the movie Ra Waiting with Ryan Reynolds. That's all based on true stories that the the uh the directors and stuff talk about it in the uh at the after the end of credits or whatever.

[00:15:45]They're like, "Yeah, this one time I took one of these guys knives, his steak knife, and I put it between my butt cheeks and pulled it out and put it on his plate and gave it to him."

[00:15:53]You guys got to be civil with people that handle your food and police officers. You're dealing with irrational, emotional human beings, which means they're not logical.

[00:16:04]And uh it's funny how it's acceptable to it's society. It's acceptable in society for us to be positive towards each other, but not negative. What's the difference? We're just shaking molecules in the air. It's a con. It's called a con. Power. Power play. Everywhere you go, you're it's power play. It's part of the reason why I'm fairly isolated. I talk to a lot of people, but I don't like playing games. I hate playing games. That's why I'm single. Every time I meet a girl, she wants to play games.

[00:16:32]It's always games, games, games. I'm like, let I don't want to play games. I am not interested in that. Like, if you want to make love and be in love and have a relationship, then let's do it.

[00:16:41]I'm not playing no freaking games with you and I am not arguing with you. And thus, I'm alone because that's what women want. That's what most men want. I don't know. It's You guys are all insane. You're mental to me. I mean, all of you. You're crazy.

[00:16:54]Anyways, but I know what you need to do, you know, and I'm here to help. It's why I started Plum Academy. Plem Academy addresses all of the issues that all of you have. I first started it for math, physics, and engineering students, but I quickly realized that why would I want to help people that are the most likely not to graduate and the most and the least likely to get a job if they do graduate. Math, physics, and engineering students are the least likely to graduate and the least likely to get a job. They are the it's the absolute worst degree you could choose unless you're a math, physics or engineering person like me. If you if you are obsessed with it, you can't stop, you love it, and you want to learn from the book and only the book and do it correctly and you have respect for the system, then you should do math, physics, or engineering, and you'll be successful.

[00:17:37]If you don't stick with the syllabus, the textbook, the professor, if you don't follow the law, the curriculum, the rule, then you're not going to succeed as a math, physics, or engineering student. And if your response is, uhuh, I know one person that did, I'm that's why you're not going to succeed because I'm always talking about averages. And you and you're like I'm I say 99 out of 100 times it happens this way and you go uhuh. One out one out of 100 times it went this way so you're wrong. I'm like sir, you are suffering from a mental illness called narcissistic personality disorder where you don't communicate with people to have a conversation. You communicate with people to be right. You create a debate and that you win without an argument.

[00:18:15]Every time you communicate with somebody, all of you know people like this. Doesn't matter what you say to them, they say what you say backwards to make it sound like they were right. And you're like, "What? What just happened?"

[00:18:24]Like, I was just telling you, I was like, "Yeah, 99 out of 100 times when kids do this in college, this is what happens." And the person responds, "No, one out of a 100 times they do the opposite of that and this is what happened." So, you're wrong. Have you met people like this? It's a severe mental illness. It's called narcissistic personality disorder. They have a severe mental illness. If you want to meet them, they're all over YouTube leaving comments. Just read the comments. That's all you'll read is people with NPD.

[00:18:46]People who leave comments on YouTube that are combative, debating, argumentative, that have narcissistic personality disorder. They're sick people. They they people they can't find people in everyday life to tolerate their NPD. So, they go on the internet and puke it all over. Strangers.

[00:19:03]The first thing that YouTube's AI integration needs to do is to identify people with NPD and block their comments because it's pathetic.

[00:19:13]It's a waste of time. It's useless. Does nothing for anybody.

[00:19:17]They just get fatter and uglier as they type that comment. It's good for them to make their life worse.

[00:19:24]Anyways, so now let's let's talk about the money thing, okay? Do you really want to go to college is the first thing you need to ask yourself because the odds of you having a useful degree are completely dependent upon you doing it correctly.

[00:19:39]If you do it incorrectly, it's a waste of time. So, I want to tell you that the to help you make the choice of whether you should go to college or not, if you're not going to read the curriculum, follow the syllabus, go to lecture, and work with the professor and do it the way it's designed to do be done and use your summers to focus on your resume, which is what Plum Academy is all about.

[00:19:58]Giving you three to five years of experience building that resume. If you don't want to do that, don't go to college. Having a piece of paper does not help you in society. It makes your life worse. When you have a degree that you bought with AI and private tutors, you're not going to be qualified to work at places that that degree conflicts with. And you're not going to be eligible to work at places that that degree is for because you don't know how to do anything. Now, you're stuck in a situation where you can only do contract labor like deliver food with Uber, drive for Uber, that's about it.

[00:20:37]Because when you when you go and you apply for a job at like Pizza Hut deliver pizzas, they're like, "You have a bachelor's degree in mathematics or something. Why would we hire you? You're just going to go back to school at some point or get a better job. Why would we?

[00:20:52]We want people that are uneducated because they're they're going to work here for a long time. People who don't have bachelor's degrees are more desired as employees at everyday average businesses because they're not going to go anywhere.

[00:21:07]But most people that have a bachelor's degree, eventually they realize that they screwed it all up and they go back to grad school to redeem themselves and they they realize all the stuff I'm saying now but way too late. You might be listening to this, you might find yourself, you've got a bachelor's degree, you can't get a job anywhere because you look at the resumes and you're like, I'm not qualified for anything. What did I spend the past five years doing? And and now you come, you find me and you're like, you're listening to me because you're trying to figure out how to solve your problems.

[00:21:35]And I tell you, you can redeem yourself by going to graduate school. My company helps students fine-tune their resume.

[00:21:43]Takes three to five years to build a resume. That's what you guys don't understand. 3 to 5 years to create a resume. It also takes five years to get an undergraduate degree.

[00:21:53]When you get that undergraduate degree, most of you start the three to five years of building your resume after you get the degree, which means you're not qualified to work anywhere. So, how do you even do that? you have to go back to school and get a master's degree. Most jobs though, when you look at most jobs, most jobs say bachelor's or masters, bachelors with five years of experience or a master's with like three years of experience.

[00:22:18]Doesn't mean you've worked a job. It just means you have related work experience. You've been fine-tuning your skill set to match the jobs that you're interested in for years, which is what I do. I guide you through that. I have you write your own book, build your own website, hosting, all of this stuff. so that you can have the necessary years of experience and all the evidence of it.

[00:22:39]And throughout this, you're working on your speech because you're recording yourself doing all of your work. You don't have to share it publicly, but you're recording yourself and then you're watching your recordings like I'm doing right now. I listen to myself after I do these because I want to know how I sound. I'm not embarrassed to listen to myself. I listen to myself to make sure I sound better the next time.

[00:22:59]I don't listen to myself and be like, "Oh my god, I hate my voice.

[00:23:03]grow up. You want to be successful in the in the and have a highpaying job, you need to grow up. You need to record yourself and listen to yourself so that you can hear what other people hear. So when I talk, I'm listening to myself. Am I breathing or am I not breathing? Are you hearing the breaths? Am I breathing?

[00:23:22]I try to be professional. It's an unprofessional setting, but I'm trying to still deliver a professional message, well composed message. I practice. It take years and years to talk like this.

[00:23:34]I have to move my mouth, my lips very differently when I talk to prevent mouth clicks and noises and stuff.

[00:23:42]Professionalism. These are the things that you guys do need the things that you need to do and you need to do it for years. Mo most of you kids, you're like, I'll just I'll I'll start talking clean and start texting properly when I graduate and and then you do it and you're like, crap, I needed to be doing this for five years. I needed to be talking like a professional and and editing my my English for five straight years. I've got zero years of experience of that. I have I have never worked a job. Most of you you you're like 23 years old and you get your bachelor's degree and you go apply for a job and and and they they want 5 to 10 years of work experience. They want five years of related experience. They want good written and oral communication skills.

[00:24:21]They want punctuality and integrity. And all of you guys are just a bunch of lying cheating thieves.

[00:24:27]you're like exact opposite of what all employers are looking for. This is why only like one out of a hundred students get well it's it's uh last year the Census Bureau last year out of a million students that attempted a degree a half a million people failed half a million people graduated and 17% of the half a million got a job related to their degree. So that's a that's for a STEM degree meaning STEM science, technology, engineering, mathematics. What does that even mean? A bachelor's of science. Anybody who takes a math course, algebra, technology, business, every STEM is everything. It's a bachelor's of science. So it's like I have to assume that when they when they're talking about the STEM statistics, they're talking about a BS degree. Bachelor's bachelor of science degree.

[00:25:18]That's what I assume they're referring to because STEM is too broad of an acronym which is why I separated. You have B STEM that's business STEM that's business calculus. You have STEM STEM that's STEM that's science calculus meaning trigonometry is a prerequisite and you have to do physics as well. And then you have CS which stops at linear algebra. And then you have PEM, physics, language engineering, mathematics, which Plem majors are writers. They're authors. They spend four or five years writing mathematical papers.

[00:25:47]And they're supposed to be experts at this when they graduate. And they're not. They're terrible. So you have I've divided these up. And the PLUM majors, it's one out of a hundred, based on my research, one out of a 100red PLM majors actually have a degree and work in their field. There's one out of a 100red that are missing because they're they they don't understand they're supposed to stay in the textbook and they throw their degree away. The other 98 chose the degree for the wrong reason. They either fail or get a they get a useless degree or they drop out and they go nowhere. computer science majors, it's more like 20 out of a hundred graduate and get a job. And there's 20 out of a hundred that messed it up because they used AI through their junior senior courses or something. Now, now it's AI. Before it was just private tutoring or solution manuals and they they would do the same thing. This the numbers haven't changed in the past 30, 40 years. People who cheat didn't succeed 30 years ago. People who cheat today don't succeed. AI is just a faster way to cheat. And you guys are like, "This is so much faster at cheat. You guys are insane.

[00:26:47]Now, so, so we we established we got the different types of degrees. Okay, what kind of degree do you want to do? What's the best degree? Do you even want to go to school? Are you going to go to lecture? Are you going to follow the code of conduct? Are you going to follow the syllabus, work with the professor?

[00:27:02]Are you going to use your summers to build your resume?

[00:27:06]Are you going to do that or are you going to whine and complain like a 10-year-old little baby? And you shouldn't have to go to lecture. The professor sucks. I can't I don't understand the textbook. It's too difficult. Let's understand this. You are going to college to go to the lecture and to learn how to read the textbook. That's what you're going there to do. To work with the professor so that you learn how to communicate professionally with somebody that you don't like to learn how to read scientific data, which takes years and years and years. That's history books, government books. It's all scientific data.

[00:27:38]You're going to learn how to write professional papers and communicate professionally. You need about five years of not acting like an idiot and you go to college.

[00:27:48]My mom and dad has a credit card. This guy, you're lazy. You're pathetic. And you blame everybody for your problems, which justifies you being a pathetic, lazy little worm. Rather than saying you're pathetic and lazy and you don't want to be that way anymore, you blame other people like me for your problems. It's the professor's fault. No, it's your fault. Okay, then there ain't nothing wrong with the job market. There's something wrong with you. No one wants to hire somebody that acts like that.

[00:28:17]Whiny, pathetic little worm. Some of these kids that went on this mission to try to defame me, taking video clips of me and making me making me look like I'm saying things that I'm not. You guys are going to go to jail for that. I'm going to sue the crap out of you and I'm going to press charges. You're breaking the law. You are trying to ruin my life because you're a spoiled little brat and I am going to press charges. Okay?

[00:28:37]You're not going to hide from this. You can go delete all of it.

[00:28:41]And that might pro that might protect you. But any of you people out there that leave ratings on my book accusing me of using AI, I'm going to sue you because that's false information. I record myself writing my books. You can see that I don't use AI. I will sue you.

[00:28:55]You are trying to defame me. This this is the attitude of a future unemployed person. You guys you guys need to read the law and understand what the law is and you need to respect it if you want to become educated.

[00:29:09]That's what college college separates people. College separates people who speed from people who don't speed or people who speed that are able to acknowledge, yes, I'm breaking the law.

[00:29:21]I understand this. Just because you have a degree doesn't mean you're educated.

[00:29:25]Doesn't mean you know anything. I mean, half of you still think the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over. When you find out it's not, you still try to defend it as if it is.

[00:29:33]I had this conversation with somebody the other day. I was trying to I go I I was just like I was like the definition of insanity is not doing the same thing over and over and he goes yes it is that's just you don't understand that's the slang joke definition you just he's like arguing like no it's a quote by Albert Einstein that was taken out of context by Alcoholics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous put it in their 12step program that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and then they puked it all over the world and you guys are brainwashed means you're uneducated you don't know anything and yet you defend your inability to you defend that you don't know it. You just say an education a real educated person would say I don't know the answer to that or according to this source it's this.

[00:30:16]That's what a real education a real educated person would do. I go what's the definition of insanity you would say I don't know or according to the Oxford language it's seriously mentally ill verbatim.

[00:30:29]That's how a educated person would communicate. an uneducated imbecile would defend Albert Einstein's quote as the actual definition or a version of it. That's an idiot.

[00:30:41]I mean, it's I I I can't explain it any other way. To defend something that's completely flatout wrong means you have narcissistic personality disorder at a very high level. I had this conversation with another person about speeding. I said, "You can't go 5 miles over the limit. It's it's against the law to go one mile over the limit." They refuse to believe that. They refuse. They're like, "Uhuh." I talked to a police officer at a bar. They tell I go I go well here's the law from the government website law this says right here if you go one mile over the limit you are breaking the law I'm not even going to look at that I don't believe it you that's how bad the NPD is in this person I have the proof right there to show you and they're like I'm not even going to look at it because it's wrong I don't believe it I don't I don't you know that's that's severe NPD and that's people who defend incorrect definitions of words incorrect knowledge after they find out it's wrong and they still can't admit they're wrong it's a mental illness It's a severe mental illness. These people are not desired employees. And when you go to an interview, you are played like a fiddle to get to. When you go to the first interview, they're not care. They don't care about your skills and what you can do. They care about whether or not you're a liar and whether or not you have narcissistic personality disorder. And and they are going to trick you into being who you are. And you have to be prepared for that because they are going to trick you into feeling comfortable enough to lie by telling the truth. I showed you guys in the other video how Joe Schmo Joe Schmo comes in and I'm like, "Sup, Joe?" You know, I make them all feel all cool and I'm like, "How you graduated?" And I get Joe to admit that he skipped lectures and pirated digital content as if I thought it was I said it in a tricky way where it made him feel like I did the same thing when I was just getting him to admit he did it. And it's like, okay, we got an insubordinate lying thief. We don't want this person at our company in charge of anything. If they're willing to just steal so easily from the tips of their fingers at home, imagine what they would do if they had access to our banks. You guys understand that? You kids that use pirating software, you're telling a future employer that you're not qualified to work there because you're a thief. Your fingers touch keys, you steal, and you think you're justified in doing it. That's even worse. When a criminal thinks that they're justified when they're breaking the law, that's even worse.

[00:32:57]And and it's and and that's dangerous.

[00:32:59]And they don't want people like that working for them. And that's the first thing they do in an interview if they can't find it online. So let So the be what's the best degree to get? Let's break this down. I'm getting down to the hour here.

[00:33:13]The best degree to get is based on what you enjoy doing.

[00:33:20]What do you like to do? God, allergy season. What do you like to do? Because the amount of money that you make is completely contingent on you yourself, not your education. I know people without degrees that make way more money than people with degrees. I know people with degrees, same degrees that make a lot of money, make less money. It depends on you. Depends on where you live. Money should be the last thing on your mind. It depends on you. It depends on where you live and it has a lot to do with your skills and qualifications. I will go through and I will show you guys the different job applications from arts degrees and business degrees and government degree, whatever. They're all the all the pay is the same everywhere for all of them. an engineering degree in Dallas, Texas for 80,000 a year and a arts degree in California for 180,000 a year. You know, an illustrator to work on Adobe software making twice as much as the engineer in Dallas. It's like it has to do with where you live. It has to do with what you know and it has to do with you yourself. So whether you're going to go to college and choose a degree, the best degree for you to choose is what you enjoy doing and what you want to devote your energy into.

[00:34:24]Because if you like doing arts and illustration, then you should spend 5 years outside of college while you're in college, focusing your resume on what you can do to get that job rather than look at an engineering degree and be like, "An engineering degree pays more or something." It doesn't. And you have the least likely chance of graduating and even worse chance of getting a job with one of those degrees. It's probably the worst degree you could choose today.

[00:34:47]People who choose those degrees, they choose them because they know that's what they're supposed to do and they do it. The numbers have not changed in the past 50 years. The same amount of people get a job with those degrees as they always have and always will. The majority of you choosing those degrees are choosing them for the wrong reason.

[00:35:04]Choose the degree. Choose the education that makes you feel good, comfortable, happy. And then look at jobs that you can get with that degree before you start college. go look at jobs that you can get with that degree and look at what the skills and the qualifications are are that you need. And that's what I do for Plum Academy is I I have you do that and write a whole freaking book and build a whole website hosting all that.

[00:35:31]Why? Because here's the thing. It doesn't matter if you have an arts degree, a business degree, math degree, physics degree. If you don't know basic HTML and basic programming and how to communicate on the internet digitally, you're useless everywhere. everywhere. I have you build a WordPress website. I have you write a book. This fine-tunes proper oral and written communication skills. You you record yourself writing the book and talking. You don't have to show it to anybody. You just need to do it.

[00:36:00]I have you do this for years. You walk away with a product that's your product that you own that you get to sell. You get to keep the rights to. And other people that are interested in going down the path you've gone down will buy that book so that they can see what you did.

[00:36:15]But you before you start college, you look at the jobs that your degree will allow you to apply for. You look at them in different parts of the country or world and you look and see what you need to get those jobs. Look at the different salaries. Over here in California, your arts degree at Adobe, if you know how to code a little bit, $180,000 a year. Over here in smalltown Minnesota, they need someone to help them with a small business. They'll pay you 50 grand a year. and you need way less qualifications and you're like, "Oh, that's fine. I live in a small city and do that or I can live in a big city and do this." You got to look when you when you're thinking about what degree you want to get. You also have to go look at the job applications. That should be the first semester of college. Should be showing you guys the job applications.

[00:37:02]You shouldn't be allowed to choose a degree until after the first semester.

[00:37:05]should be like a crash course in all these different disciplines and what the job applications look like be and to teach you how to read a textbook, teach you how to do college properly. That should be the first thing you guys do.

[00:37:16]But if they did that, too many people would succeed that shouldn't succeed because we need people not to be in the educated world to run, you know, to work in in jobs that don't require education.

[00:37:25]It's important balance for society. No shame in any of it. It's just you putting down your ego and admitting that what's what's best for you is this rather than what your parents want or whatever or what you think you want.

[00:37:39]So, the best degree to choose is going to be based on the future job applications that you're going to apply for.

[00:37:46]I can tell you right now, if you're listening to me and you're thinking about doing a math, physics, or engineering degree, you should not do it because you've already shot yourself in the foot going to the internet to learn that stuff. the odds of you being successful are astronomically low.

[00:38:00]I would recommend a business degree.

[00:38:03]Business degree is probably the best degree that you can get. It it will allow you to get work anywhere, highpaying work anywhere. You may not like the job, but you'll be able to get work anywhere. And if you know how to do a little computer programming and a little bit of math with a business degree, you become very applicable at a lot of places. I would recommend whether you do an arts degree, a business degree, a medicine degree, a law degree, whatever degree you do, I would highly recommend that you do something related to computer programming and basic web development so that you know how to communicate digitally with people.

[00:38:35]That's what I do with Blum Academy.

[00:38:37]That's the whole point is that to get you guys it I call the certificate modern web development and resume building and scientific communication via electronic means so that you guys can become applicable because when you go work at a job everything's pretty much digital. You need to know how to work with the digital world.

[00:38:55]It doesn't matter what degree you're taking. What my service is the L the language PLM physics language engineering mathematics. The language applies to everybody. You all have to have good written and oral communication skills and you need many years of doing it. You need a ton of skills on your resume. Whether you have an arts degree or business degree or math, physics or engineering degree, you need a lot of skills. So I re if you want to know what the best degree to get is 2026.

[00:39:19]What I recommend you do today is go look at the jobs that you would apply for with that degree in four different states or cities or something.

[00:39:30]five different states or cities and just take a look at what the skills and qualifications are and s take a look at what the salary is. What you're gonna find out is that they all pay the same and they all want three to five years of different related work experience. One thing that every single job application has in common is that they all want excellent written and oral communic oral and communication skills and many many many years of using Microsoft Office tools and the ability to understand HTML a little bit. It's pretty much any little coding like pretty much every single job for every single degree is is needing that. The majority of you walk away with five years of writing with pencil and paper and terrible written and oral communication skills, skipping lecture, stealing with pirating software. The majority of you walk away exactly unqualified for any job.

[00:40:28]But that that's my two cents on that.

[00:40:30]The best degree is going to be based on the job applications. go find out if you have what it takes to get to that point.

[00:40:38]Because basically all of you listening right now, statistically speaking, 17 out of a hundred of you that actually graduate will get a job with your degree. A hundred of you will fail. 17 out of the remaining hundred of you will get a job with your degree.

[00:41:00]Those odds are terrible. They're terrible. And those odds are created by people choosing the wrong degrees and not studying correctly, not having respect for the system.

[00:41:12]Those numbers are created by you people.

[00:41:14]And if you're on YouTube, you're you're those people. You're exactly those people. I created Plum Academy to as a safe a safety zone on the internet for future college educated people to use the internet to communicate with other people that are trying to become educated properly. Everything that I do goes to the source, the correct source, the legit source, and is cited properly.

[00:41:37]Everything I do is legit. And I have an accredited education.

[00:41:42]Everywhere else you go, it is not legit.

[00:41:44]It's all scams. And you guys know mine's legit because I show you every time I do it. This is the source. This is how it's done. This is where you go. I do everything legit.

[00:41:54]Too legit to quit. Hey. Hey. So, uh, anyways, that's my two cents on the best degree.

[00:42:01]My my recommendation for you first is to have a one-on-one with yourself of whether or not you should even go to college and, uh, then go look at the job applications and find out what you can do with the degrees you're thinking about getting.

[00:42:15]I would not be worried about AI. AI is not doing anything to take over any jobs. It will replace medical doctors, though. If AI is AI is twice as accurate at diagnosing.

[00:42:28]Humans don't diagnose people right because they have emotions get in the way. I I I hit myself in the stomach and I got pancreatitis from hitting myself in the stomach. Physical trauma, but I had said I had some alcohol the night before and they could not get it out of their head that it was caused by alcohol when it was caused from physical trauma.

[00:42:50]And um it's dangerous. You know, medical doctors that cannot separate their emotions. He had a drink last night.

[00:42:57]He's an alcoholic. That's the pancreas.

[00:42:58]No, I I drink all the time. It was from hitting myself in the stomach. I know my body, you know, I'm trying to explain to them these things and they're they they get caught in their head. So AI is going to be the first jobs to replace are going to be medical doctors because medical doctors are dangerous. The US government released a study. It said 50% of all diagnoses in the ER are are wrong. you again, you have a better chance of winning at blackjack than you do at having a doctor diagnosing you correctly. But like AI is like around 80% or something for medical diagnosis.

[00:43:29]Who are you going to trust? A doctor who's 50% accurate on a good day or AI who's 80% accurate on a bad day? I would trust AI in that situation. But when it comes to math and physics, you don't trust something that's 80% accurate in math and physics. Uh-uh. You're a fool if you're using AI for math and physics.

[00:43:46]It's it's like it's not accurate.

[00:43:50]You think it's accurate because you're uneducated. You're being conned. If you were educated and you looked at this AI generated slop, you would immediately understand that it is not worth using.

[00:44:02]And if you have the what about this situation, you need to leave college immediately. Just leave. You're in. If you're like what about this situation, you need to leave. You just you're in the wrong place. So, uh anyways, so that's my two cents on that. The best degree 2026. If you guys are interested in joining Plum Academy, I will I will set you up on a guide that guides you to a stellar resume. You create this whole slew of resources that fine-tune and pinpoint what you want to do when you graduate so that you can actually get that job.

[00:44:37]Check it out. It's a great service. We have a lot of people signed up for the men and coming to the mentorship meetings. God, my dog.

[00:44:46]She She knows exactly what I say at the end of the podcast and she just is ready to go. She just jumped right on the cables and almost ripped the computer out. Anyways, she's funny girl.

[00:44:57]>> You're a funny girl.

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